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(No ModeL) 1 I P. TOGLIO. FIRE RESISTINGWEATHER BOARDING. No. 297.730.Patented Apr, 29,1884.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

PETER TOGLIO, OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA.

FIRE-RESISTING WEATHER-BOARDING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 297,730, dated April29, 1884.

Application filed February 5, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it WMI/Z/ concern.

Be it known that I, PETER TOGLIO, a citizen of the United States,residing at Charleston, in the county of Charleston and State of SouthCarolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inFire-Resisting Weath er-Boarding for Frame Houses; and I hereby declarethat the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the same,reference being made to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, and to the letters and figures of reference markedthereon.

In the drawingsannexed, Figure 1 represents a transverse section of twoweatherboards embodying my-invention and method of applying it. Fig. 2shows the same boards in elevation.

Similar letters. where used in the different figures, refer tocorresponding parts.

I do not restrict myself to this or to any particular form ofweather-board, as my inveu-. tion is equally applicable toweather-boarding of any other shape or form, ornamental as well asplain, and also to the frame-work joining such weather-boardingtogether. I

I am aware that prior to my inve'ntion frame houses have beenconstructed with weatherboards on the outside,and which, from theinflammable nature of the material composing them, were very subject todestruction by fire, and that many attempts have been made to mitigatethis evil, and make such weatherboarded houses less liable todestruction from fire, by saturating the weather-boardswith solutions ofvarious uninflammable substances, and also by coating the exterior withvarious fireresisting paints; but in the first case where the wood wassaturated with an uninflammable solution, the action of the atmosphereand the weather soon deprived the outer portions of the'weather-boardsof their uninfiammable qualities,and thesame causes often caused thefire-resistingpaints to crack, blister, and peel off, leaving .theweather-boards unprotected.

I will now proceed to describe my invention with reference to theannexed drawings.

The weather boards during manufacture, and as a process of the same, aresaturated with an uninflammable solution-such as sulphate of alumina orthe likcand also have their outer surfaces protected by coverings ofthin sheet metal 0 c, wherever they maybe exposed to the action of theatmosphere when put together. This thin sheet metalisflangcd attheedges, as shown at d and e, and securely fastened to the weather-board,either by nail ing it, as shown atf, or by pressing theflanged edge ofthe sheetmetal into the weather-board,

as shown at g. The sheet-metal coverings are attachedto theweather-boards before any of the uninflammable matter with which theweather-boarding has been saturated has'had time to escape or otherwiseto lose its efficacy. They may be pressed into any form or shape whichthe surface of the weather boarding may take, and may afterward beornamented by painting, or by any other process, in the same manner asthe surface of the weather boarding itself.

Paving thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent: is-

1. Fire-resisting weather-boarding for frame houses, consisting ofweather-boards saturated 7 with uninfiammable material and with theirsurfaces protected by coverings of thin sheet metal, substantially asherein described and shown. I

2. In combination with fire-resisting weather-boarding, the coverings ofthin sheet metal c 0, made with flanged edges d and e, and fastened to,the weather-boards, substantially as described and shown, and for thepurpose set forth.

PETER TOGLIO.

' Witnesses:

-WILLIAM Frron, HERBERT W. T. JENNER.

